Introduction

Thank you for buying this book: The C Programming Language – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide. In this book, we are going to give you an overview of the concepts that you have to understand before you actually start programming in the C language.We will explain to you the different elements that you ought to know about before you go and delve into developing more complex programs for different operating systems.

The C programming language has many benefits. However, it also has numerous little aspects that can leave you perplexed. Not being able to understand these aspects can definitely cause you problems in the future.

In this book, we're going to talk about what those elements are. We are also going to talk about what C is, where it came from, and all of the fundamental concepts that you have to understand before you actually start programming. In addition, we'll also teach you how to setup and use the Code Blocks IDE, which will help you greatly when programming in the C language.

All Topices List

Chapter 1: Introduction to C Programming Language History of C Programming Language What is Programming? What is a Source code? What is an IDE? Running Code Blocks Chapter 2: Staring Your First C Project Keywords Functions Operators Structure Chapter 3: The Old I/O Puts Function Printf Function Escape Characters Chapter 4: The C Language Variables Chapter 5: Character I/O Functions in C The String The scanf() Function Chapter 6: Math Operators Math Library functions Chapter 7: C Language Comparisons If Statements Else Statements Else if Statements Switch/Else Statements The While Loop Do/While Loop The For keyword The Nested Loop Chapter 8: Anatomy of a Function Character Manipulation Functions Logical Operators Chapter 9: Working with Strings Strlen Strcat / Concatenation Strcmp / String compare Strstr/ String String Chapter 10: C Language Constants Chapter 11: C language Arrays Anatomy of an Array Multi-dimensional Arrays Chapter 12: C Language Structures Chapter 13: C Language Time Functions Chapter 14: C Language Variables Chapter 15: C Language Pointers Dual Nature of Pointers Array Manipulation Using Pointers Pointer Functions Pointer Arrays Conclusion